IronChefMoto
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Alpharetta, GA
| Same thing happened to friend of mine
A buddy of mine recently tried to switch from BellSouth local service in north Atlanta to another CLEC (no-name-brand) local service. He wanted to keep his BellSouth FastAccess DSL. He was told that he could if he switched to the CLEC. So, he did, BellSouth cut him off of their DSL, and he was without DSL for about a week. Eventually, he was told that, without several weeks and several faxes of signed documentation, he would not be able to use BellSouth FastAccess DSL with the new CLEC local service.
He's now paying, again, the same amount for his BellSouth local service that he would've paid for a CLEC that offered ALL the land line bells and whistles. At least he has his DSL back. It's a shame that the PSC here in Georgia didn't require the "dead wire" setup option for people who just want DSL and NO local phone service -- ILEC or CLEC. I'm not even sure that's technically possible. Someone chime in.
IronChefMorimoto
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while it's not technically impossible to run dsl without pots(dailtone) it does defeat one of the reasons for adsl over anyother xdsl. it saves on copperpairs in the field.